Huffman v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The mail-transportation contract out of which the cause of action here arose was one of the ordinary contracts of the Post-Office Department, and its construction was not involved in the suit. The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The contract mentioned in the claimant’s petition, and set forth in full in the exhibit thereto, was duly executed by both parties-on the 24th day of April, 1858. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The mail-transportation contract out of which the cause of action here arose was one of the ordinary contracts of the Post-Office Department, and its construction was not involved in the suit. The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The contract mentioned in the claimant’s petition, and set forth in full in the exhibit thereto, was duly executed by both parties-on the 24th day of April, 1858. II. The claimant carried the mail under the above contract to and including the 10th day of September, 1801, when he ceased to carry the mail, by…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The Sundry civil appropriation Act 3d March, 1877 (19 Stat. L., pp. 314, 362, ch. 105), appropriates the sum of $375,000 for the purpose of paying “the amount due to mail contractors for mail service performed” in certain designated States. The States so designated are those which seceded in 1860-1861, and likewise the States of Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia. The mail service so to be paid for is limited to that performed “in the'years 1859, 1860, and 1861, and before said States respectively engaged in Avar against the United States”; and “ claims which have been paid by the…
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